Governors Ball has announced the lineup for their 2018 festival, which goes down in New York City's Randall's Island Park the weekend of June 1 - 3. The headliners are Eminem (also announced as a Coachella headliner today), Jack White, Travis Scott, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More

Another Dark Year Was Brightened By a Plethora of Fantastic Albums

Dec 30, 2017By Mark Redfern

2016 was regarded as a fairly rough year by many, but 2017 was no walk in the park either. 2016 was mired by the deaths of several beloved musical icons (David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and Sharon Jones among them) and the disappointing and divisive Presidential election, but in 2017 we had to deal with the ramifications of said election (we'd say that roughly 95% of the musicians we interview likely don't support many, if any, of President Trump's policies). More

She Also Performed "Boys"

Dec 07, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Back in July Charli XCX shared a catchy as hell brand new song, "Boys," via a video she self-directed (with Sarah McColgan). Now she has stopped by Australia's Triple J radio station to perform "Boys," but also take part in their "Like a Version" covers series where she has covered "Don't Delete the Kisses," by fellow Brits Wolf Alice. More

Issue 62 Also Includes Interviews with Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, The Horrors, Wolf Alice, Jessie Ware, King Krule, and Much More

Oct 20, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Fall 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar's app and the magazine app Readly. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine app Zinio). The issue features Julien Baker on the cover. More

Visions of a Life Out Now via Dirty Hit/RCA

Sep 29, 2017By Scott Dransfield

Brandon Flowers, of The Killers fame, was recently lambasted in some indie-blog circles for claiming in a recent interview with Noisey that rock bands haven't gained a commercial traction comparable to their own lately because there "hasn't been anybody good enough." More

Plus Angel Olsen, TORRES, Stars, Cults, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Sep 22, 2017By Christopher Roberts

We're back down to eight Songs of the Week, after promising last week to stick with a Top 10 for awhile. But it was a slow week for new tracks. Still, there were some clear gems this week, as you will see below, with an easy choice for top song. More

Visions of a Life Due Out September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA

Sep 18, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Britain's Wolf Alice are releasing their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, on September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA. Now they have shared the album's opening cut, "Heavenward." Listen below followed by the band's upcoming tour dates.

Visions of a Life Due Out September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA

Sep 11, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Britain's Wolf Alice continue to surprise with the rollout for their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, (due out September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA). Each of the three singles shared thus far have sounded remarkably different for each other and now their new video for the album's third single, "Beautifully Unconventional," features frontwoman Ellie Rowsell channeling Marilyn Monroe, performing the song on a soundstage looking like something out of classic 1950s Hollywood. More

Plus Alvvays, Ariel Pink, Yumi Zouma, Madeline Kenney, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Aug 18, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Charlottesville, Virginia is only just over an hour a way from Under the Radar's headquarters. It's the best local city to see shows in and it's a great little progressive college town that we visit often. So we watched in horror, disbelief, and disgust last weekend as the violent and tragic events in Charlottesville surrounding the white supremacist rally dominated the news. More

Visions of a Life Due Out September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA

Jul 28, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Britain's Wolf Alice are releasing their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, on September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA. Previously the band shared a lyric video for the album's punky and profanity-laden first single, the two-minute long "Yuk Foo," in which frontwoman Ellie Rowsell declares in the chorus "you bore me, you bore me to death, well you bore me, no I don't give a shit." More

Plus Japanese Breakfast and Loney dear, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Jul 07, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Most of the American music industry took Monday and Tuesday off for the long July 4th weekend, leaving only three days to produce worthy new songs this week. But that was good enough for some strong new offerings, including one song actually called "Offering." More

Visions of a Life Due Out September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA

Jul 05, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Britain's Wolf Alice are releasing their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, on September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA. Previously the band shared a lyric video for the album's punky and profanity-laden first single, the two-minute long "Yuk Foo," in which frontwoman Ellie Rowsell declares in the chorus "you bore me, you bore me to death, well you bore me, no I don't give a shit." More

Relaxer Due Out June 2 via Canvasback Music

Apr 13, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Alt-J are releasing their third album, Relaxer, on June 2 via Canvasback Music. Previously they shared "3WW," which featured the vocals of Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice, and "In Cold Blood," which sounded like something that could have easily been found on the band's Mercury Prize-winning debut album from 2012, An Awesome Wave. More

Relaxer Due Out June 9 via Canvasback Music

Mar 06, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Alt-J have announced a new album, Relaxer, and shared its first single, "3WW." Relaxer is the British trio's third album and is due out June 9 via Canvasback Music. It's the follow-up to 2014's This Is All Yours (and 2012's An Awesome Wave, whichwon the Mercury Prize). More

Ewan McGregor and Danny Boyle Return on February 3, 2017

Nov 03, 2016By Christopher Roberts

Trainspotting 2(or T2 Trainspotting as they seem to be calling it), the long-awaited sequel to the beloved Scottish cult classic from 1996, started shooting back in May and in July we were treated to a new teaser trailer that didn't show much footage from the movie, beyond the main original cast (Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, and Ewen Bremner) standing on a rural train platform, in reference to an iconic shot in the original film. More

My Love Is Cool Out Now via Dirty Hit/RCA

Jan 22, 2016By Christopher Roberts

Britain's Wolf Alice released their excellent debut album, My Love Is Cool, back in June on Dirty Hit/RCA. Now the band has stopped by NPR's offices to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. For the uninitiated, Tiny Desk Concerts are stripped down sets recorded at the desk of Bob Boilen, the host NPR's All Songs Considered. More

The Sasquatch! Music Festival has revealed the lineup for their 2016 festival, their 15th year. Once again it will be going down Memorial Day Weekend (May 27 - 30) at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington. It's a stacked lineup, including The Cure, M83, Sufjan Stevens, Grimes, Florence and the Machine, Wolf Alice, Julia Holter, Jamie xx, Caribou, Yeasayer, Savages, Kurt Vile, Mac DeMarco, and others.

Coachella has announced the line-up for their 2016 festival, which goes down in Indio, California over two weekends in April (with the same bill each weekend). Friday and Saturday are headlined by two newly reformed bands, LCD Soundsystem and Guns N' Roses (featuring the reunion of Axl Rose and Slash). Calvin Harris headlines Sunday night. More

Plus Florence and the Machine, The Weeknd, Father John Misty, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Björk, and More

Dec 07, 2015By Christopher Roberts

This morning nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards were announced, with the ceremony to go down on February 15, 2016. Kendrick Lamar is nominated 11 times. Other nominees include Mark Ronson, Tame Impala, Wolf Alice, Courtney Barnett, Florence and the Machine, The Weeknd, Caribou, Jamie xx, Alabama Shakes, Death Cab for Cutie, The Dead Weather, and more. More

Love Is Cool Out Now via Dirty Hit/RCA

Nov 23, 2015By Christopher Roberts

Britain's Wolf Alice released their excellent debut album, My Love Is Cool, back in June on Dirty Hit/RCA. Now the band has shared a colorful video for "Freazy." In the tongue-in-cheek clip the band have a picnic in a Wonderland-esque setting, but then they take some major magic mushrooms and go on a crazy trip. More

Aphex Twin, Gaz Coombes, and Others Also Nominated

Oct 16, 2015By Christopher Roberts

Since 1992 the Mercury Prize has been awarded to the best British album of the year, meaning an album created by a citizen of the U.K. and Ireland. It's become one of the biggest honors a British musician can receive and can also boost an album's sales in the U.K., especially if it wins. Now this year's nominees have been announced. More

Love Is Cool Out Now via Dirty Hit/RCA

Sep 22, 2015By Christopher Roberts

Britain's Wolf Alice released their excellent debut album, My Love Is Cool, back in June on Dirty Hit/RCA. Now the single "Bros" has been remixed by fellow Brit Nao, who not only messes with the instrumentation but adds her own soulful vocals to the song. More

Issue 54 Also Includes Interviews with New Order, Garbage, Foals, Beirut, Jesse Eisenberg, Low, FFS, Destroyer, Wolf Alice, Tamaryn, the Casts of Fear the Walking Dead and Wet Hot American Summer, and More

June 20, 2015

My Love Is Cool Out June 23 via Dirty Hit/RCA

Jun 17, 2015By Christopher Roberts

Britain's Wolf Alice made it across the pond and to the west coast for a performance of "Moaning Lisa Smile" on Conan last night. The song can be found on their forthcoming debut album, My Love Is Cool, which is due out next week (June 23) via Dirty Hit/RCA. More

My Love Is Cool Out June 23 via Dirty Hit/RCA

May 28, 2015By Christopher Roberts

Britain's Wolf Alice has released a new video for "Bros." The simple but effective clip was directed by 'Sblood and features two young girls, best friends, who pal around and generally have a fun day in London. More

Interviews

Dreams of Tomorrow

Dec 19, 2017By Matt Fink

The cover of Wolf Alice's second full-length release is striking in its simplicity. A young girl in an idyllic garden strikes a ballerina pose beside what appears to be the skull of a large animal. The girl stares off into the distance, expressionless and seemingly lost in thought. More

Endless Travels

Aug 10, 2017By Austin Trunick

Following leisurely journeys across Northern England and Italy, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon set off due south in The Trip to Spain, the third and latest entry in British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's comedic Tripseries. More

Helicopters on Mars

Mar 28, 2016By Matt Fink

Ellie Rowsell closes her eyes and winces. Here it comes: the questions about how Wolf Alice sounds so much like a '90s band. She's heard this all before—how their guitars grunt and drums crash in ways that prove they've mastered the loud/soft dynamic, how their sound owes so much to a generation of alt rockers that it couldn't be anything but intentional—and she seems tired of explaining why all of this seems so strange for someone who is barely old enough to remember life before the millennium. More

A Different Kind of Beast

Dec 02, 2015By Mike Hilleary

Sitting in the lobby of a Best Western hotel just a few hours before his band will perform a sold-out show at Austin, TX's Holy Mountain music venue, Wolf Alice guitarist Joff Oddie says he recently experienced a bit of an epiphany: since vocalist Ellie Rowsell first found and contacted him through local online classifieds back in 2010, the London outfit—also featuring bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey—have already released two EPs; performed across the U.K. countless times; appeared on the bill of numerous large-scale festivals including SXSW, Reading and Leeds, and Glastonbury; opened for alt-J across Europe; and toured the U.S. on four separate occasions, all without a full-length album to their name. More

Call of the Wild

Aug 21, 2015By Mike Hilleary

Going to school in London Ellie Rowsell knew she wanted to be in a band. Unfortunately none of the people she knew within her immediate social circle could even put a few chords together on guitar or play the drums. More

Reviews

Visions of a Life

Dirty Hit/RCA

Sep 28, 2017By Matt the Raven

On the first trip through Wolf Alice's sophomore album Visions of a Life, it sounds as though this London alt rock quartet doesn't know what direction to take or what type of band they want to become. More

My Love is Cool

Dirty Hit/RCA

Jul 06, 2015By Scott Dransfield

London four-piece Wolf Alice got their name from a 1979 short story by Angela Carter. In the story, a feral child, left in the care of a lonely werewolf, independently becomes aware of her human nature and womanhood, transcending her animalistic origins. More